Tuition showdown: Is the PQ about to learn what it's like to be Liberal?

Back in the ’60s, young people in university had a saying that warned you should trust anyone over 30. That advice seems to have come home to roost for young people in university in 2013.

Student associations hoping for a tuition freeze discovered during yesterday’s session of the summit on higher education that the PQ government of Pauline Marois, which rode into office in part on a wave of discontent over tuition fee hikes proposed by the Liberals, will indeed raise tuition fees after all.

The hikes will be indexed to inflation and represent about $70 extra a year in fees, but that’s unlikely to assuage those students who thought their cause of a tuition freeze would be won under a PQ government.

Meanwhile, other student groups are going to hit the streets in protest on Tuesday afternoon, angry that their demand for free university education wasn’t even on the table at the summit.

What’s happening so far and what may happen in the wake of Marois’ announcement? We asked those questions to Gazette senior political correspondent Phil Authier, who’s been covering the summit since it began. Click on the grey icon below to hear what he said. And remember, you can listen to us on iTunes at http://tinyurl.com/a7b39doand follow us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MontrealAtTheMoment.

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